of Coventry, Godiva (Godgifu)

Birth Name of Coventry, Godiva (Godgifu) 1a 2a 3a
Also Known As Godiva (Godgifu), of Coventry 3b
Gramps ID I3407
Gender female
Age at Death 87 years, 8 months, 9 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth [E4174] 980 Mercia, England  
1b 3c
Death [E4175] 1067-09-10    
3d

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Sheriff of Lincolnshire, Thorold of Buckingham [I1580]955
         of Coventry, Godiva (Godgifu) [I3407] 980 1067-09-10

Families

    Family of Earl of Mercia, Leofric III and of Coventry, Godiva (Godgifu) [F2503]
Married Husband Earl of Mercia, Leofric III [I3408] ( * 968-05-14 + 1057-08-31 )
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage [E28956]      
1c 2 3e
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Earl of Mercia, AElfgar III of Mercia [I3404]1002BET. 1059 - 1063

Narrative

[SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]

Godiva, Lady (flourished about 1040-80), Anglo-Saxon
noblewoman, wife of Leofric, earl of Mercia (flourished
1005-57). She is known to have persuaded her husband to found
monasteries at Coventry (1043) and Stow. According to legend,
she obtained a reduction in the excessive taxes levied by her
husband on the people of Coventry by consenting to ride naked
through the town on a white horse. Only one person disobeyed
her orders to remain indoors behind closed shutters; this man,
a tailor known afterward as Peeping Tom, peered through a
window and immediately became blind. The oldest form of the
legend is in the 13th-century Flores Historiarum (Flowers of
the Historians). A festival in her honor was instituted as part
of Coventry Fair in 1678.

Source: 'The World Book Encyclopedia', 1968, p G235. 'Godiva,
Lady,' Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1993
Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1993 Funk & Wagnall's
Corporation

Narrative

Records not imported into INDI (individual) Gramps ID I3407:

Line ignored as not understood Line 79046: 2 SOUR @S085410@
Skipped subordinate line Line 79047: 3 DATA
Skipped subordinate line Line 79048: 4 TEXT Date of Import: Aug 7, 2000

 

Attributes

Type Value Notes Sources
REFN 3846
 

Pedigree

  1. Sheriff of Lincolnshire, Thorold of Buckingham [I1580]
    1. of Coventry, Godiva (Godgifu)
      1. Earl of Mercia, Leofric III [I3408]
        1. Earl of Mercia, AElfgar III of Mercia [I3404]

Ancestors

Source References

  1. Frederick Lewis Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to [S10400]
      • Page: line 176A pp 151-152, Sister to Thorold of Buckingham, Sheriff of Lincolnshire, parentage uncertain but she was evidently from an old, noble family. The "Lady Godiva" of legend.
      • Page: line 176A pp 151-152, b prob ca 1010
      • Page: line 176A pp 151-152, m by 1030, possibly her 2nd m, one known child
  2. Dorothy Dunnett: King Hereafter, File Number: ISBN # 0-375-70403-5 [S11932]
      • Page: no parents
  3. SUSANNA KEENE.FTW [S85410]
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